On Friday 02 May 2003 19:25, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Linux World 999 (linuxworld999@yahoo.co.uk) [030502 11:17]:
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I think SuSE has done quite well in informing the user about these things and how to get around most of them.
Not as far as acpi is concerned. I agree with Dep that ACPI should be turned off by default.
As Phillip already explained we tried that in 8.0 and it was even more of a problem. There some machines that won't even boot if it isn't turned making debugging the problem impossible. Which is better, having a percentage of machines that cannot boot or having a percentage that can boot but don't work properly? <snip>
Ok - I understand your problem. Perhaps SuSE could find a way of highlighting or avoiding this problem better. There is a menu option of installing with ACPI disabled. Is it possible to have a utility to test whether ACPI should be enabled or disabled as part of the install process? LW999